Guest Speaker: Tonya McCarley will be presenting on "Dual-track"­ Agile

July 22, 2014 · 7:00 PM

MSU

Tonya McCarley, Associate Manager of User Experience Design at ITHAKA will be coming in to speak to us about "Dual-track" Agile. This is the idea of running two tracks within one project. One track focuses on development and the other focuses on discovery. The job of the discovery track team is to validate assumptions by
creating hypothesis, making an artifact, and then testing it in front of users. One of the testing methods that she will touch upon is A/B testing.

It was a pretty good meetup, Nice presentation, got good information about the Dual-track Agile that they are following in their organization. I am happy to recognize that we have implemented the same with very small team. Thank you McCarley.

Very interesting adaptation of agile; seems to work for them, but I think it would be massive overkill in smaller shops. The same discovery is done by the product owner and scrum master in the smaller team environments, but I do like the idea of small testing efforts if the problems fit into that paradigm and there are resources to devote to the tasks.

Since topic is still TBD... I would really like to learn more about technical details of things like A/B testing, i.e. how do you determine the rules for A versus B and what is the focus for collecting analyzing the data? This of course is going to give a lagging indicator so I would also be interested in preemptive measures to positively impact user experience :-)

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